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Musicians speak many languages. Their native tongue, maybe a few others, music as a language itself, and of course they speak... "musician" In this pureMix.net exclusive, award winning producer, Fab Dupont, explores the fascinating language musicians have developed over centuries in their natural habitat.

Continuing with our popular 'Essentials' series we welcome back Owsey to take us through some tips and techniques used to create Ambient and Downtempo music. From building epic chord progressions, creating new sounds with resampling and harnessing plugin artifacts to ethereal orchestral strings and fundamental effects to build atmosphere, this is a genre that uses experimental sound techniques that take you on an emotive journey.

What is Sound Design, how do you do it in Studio One and how can it help my songwriting, composing and music productions? Well, that is what will be covered in this course. Are you tired of jumping for presets and patches on your instruments, and would you rather understand sound better so that you can build and create your own sounds with your instruments in Studio One, then this is the perfect class for you!

Have you always wanted to make music, but you don't know where to begin? Opening up Ableton Live can seem quite intimidating. With such a powerful piece of software, it can be hard to know how and where to get started!

I know there are a handful of Mixing & Mastering courses out there but believe it or not, this is the only one solely focusing on providing you complete explanations and verbally detailed examples of why decisions are made, so you’ll have the ability to apply demonstrated techniques elsewhere.

Back with an all-new monster 'How To Make' course, Protoculture's here to create a classic 90's Breaks tune from scratch! With the recent resurgence in this genre from the likes of Bicep, Trance Wax and Franky Wah, Nate dives headfirst into this style using recognisable breaks and 90's synths to recreate the sound and nailing it with a textbook classic.

Wavetable Synthesizer Sound Design This course presents 3 sections of lessons designed to help sound designers come to grips with wavetable synthesis. First, we’ll discuss how wavetable compares to other types of synthesis (including subtractive, additive and FM). Next, we’ll look at features of Ableton Live’s Wavetable synth and look at how each crucial feature works. Finally, we’ll discuss a strategy for sound design work. When you’re done with the course, you’ll feel comfortable working with Ableton’s Wavetable and you’ll have a strategy for getting started on your next sound design project using wavetable synthesis.

Wavetable synthesis is an essential part of today’s modern sounds used in cutting-edge genres of music. Make sure you’re capable of flexing the full power of Live’s new mainstay synth. Our high-quality, straight-to-the-point videos will accelerate your knowledge, allowing you to confidently create the sounds you hear in your head.

If you ask someone to explain audio compression you'll often get very different answers from different people. Well, here at Sonic Academy we go right back to basics to nail this subject once and for all so you can finally fully understand it.

Following on from our popular, Synthwave, House and Trance 'Essentials' series, there was only ever one person to go to when it came to looking at the beginnings of Techno - the man himself Kirk Degiorgio.

Here we look at where it all started for Bluffmunkey and how the Trance genre came about, some of the technology used and how it has evolved. If you're looking to get into creating a classic Trance track and not sure what elements are required then look no further as Tech Tips Volume 60 'Trance Essentials' is here and Bluffmunkey's going to show you everything you need to know!

Studio expert Patrick Coffin presents a comprehensive video tutorial course on how to use external studio hardware with your DAW! See how to incorporate external hardware and analog gear like compressors, channel strips, effects, reverbs, delays and more into your setup, and discover how it opens up incredible sonic doors for your productions and mixes. These videos are designed for those who are new to setting up external hardware processing with their computer DAW.

What exactly is Physical Modeling and what can it do for your music? Join audio expert Joe Albano in this course to find out! Physical Modeling simulates the properties of acoustic sound sources, such as string, brass or wind instruments. With physical modeling instruments, complex mathematical algorithms are used to generate the sound, but thankfully, you don't have to be a math genius to use them. In this course, synth expert Joe Albano takes a look at this unique synthesis method, and gives an overview of different software and hardware instruments that use it.

Eurgh, music theory... ‘Music theory’ are two dreaded words, carrying with them a sense of intimidation and boredom. As a music producer, you might hear these two words and think: ‘this isn’t relevant,’ ‘I don’t need this,’ ‘It’s all just jargon!’.

Studio expert Larry Holcombe presents comprehensive Plugin Boutique Scaler 2 video tutorials! If you want to learn how to take advantage of all the features and functions available in Scaler and use them to create a world of new ideas, expressions and melodies, this course is the one to watch. Larry walks you through the basics and then dives into the more advanced features and functions, as well as shows you them in action by creating different song ideas from scratch. These videos are for new Plugin Boutique Scaler 2 users.